Author: Baroness Jemima Montgomery TautphoeusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The Initials
Author: Baroness Jemima Montgomery TautphoeusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Decorative Initials
Author: Judy BalchinPublisher: Il Castello
ISBN: 9781903975428
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A beautiful collection of original decorative letters interlaced with flowers, leaves, animals, birds, figures and more.
The Initials of the Earth
Author: Jesús DíazPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822388219
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Many critics consider The Initials of the Earth to be the quintessential novel of the Cuban Revolution and the finest work by the Cuban writer and filmmaker Jesús Díaz. Born in Havana in 1941, Díaz was a witness to the Revolution and ardent supporter of it until the last decade of his life. In 1992 he took up residence as an exile in Berlin and later in Madrid, where he died in 2002. This is the first of his books to be translated into English. Originally written in the 1970s, then rewritten and published simultaneously in Havana and Madrid in 1987, The Initials of the Earth spans the tumultuous years from the 1950s until the 1970s, encompassing the Revolution and its immediate aftermath. The novel opens as the protagonist, Carlos Pérez Cifredo, sits down to fill out a questionnaire for readmission to the Cuban Communist Party. It closes with Carlos standing before a panel of Party members charged with assessing his merit as an “exemplary worker.” The chapters between relate Carlos’s experiences of the pre- and postrevolutionary era. His family is torn apart as some members reject the Revolution and flee the country while others, including Carlos, choose to stay. He witnesses key events including the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban missile crisis, and the economically disastrous sugar harvest of 1970. Throughout the novel, Díaz vividly renders Cuban culture through humor, slogans, and slang; Afro-Cuban religion; and references to popular music, movies, and comics. This edition of The Initials of the Earth includes a bibliography and filmography of Diaz’s works and a timeline of the major events of the Cuban revolutionary period. In his epilogue, the Cuban writer Ambrosio Fornet reflects on Díaz’s surprising 1992 renunciation of the Revolution, their decades-long friendship, and the novel’s reception, structure, and place within Cuban literary history.
A Key to the Old and New Testaments, exhibited by the initials of the White Stone, on the coming of the Millenium, etc
Author: John T. MATTHEWSFanciful Victorian Initials
Author: Carol Belanger GraftonPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486145972
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Rich compendium of decorative capitals from British humor magazine. Historic calligraphy; topical, literary, political allusions; animals, plants, more by Tenniel, Leech, Doyle, other masters.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Author: Elizabeth Barrett BrowningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Electronic Signatures in Law
Author: Stephen MasonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107012295
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Using case law from multiple jurisdictions, Stephen Mason examines the nature and legal bearing of electronic signatures.
English Blind Stamped Bindings
Author: OldhamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521058619
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
A study of the tools used on blind-stamped bindings in England between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Report from the Committee Appointed to Examine the Physicians who Have Attended His Majesty
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spanish Succession, War of, 1701-1714
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description